Community- and Prevention-Oriented Practice to Improve Population Health
Definition of Public Health Practice
What is “what we, as a society, do collectively to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy”
Economics
What is provides the means to evaluate the attaining of society wants and needs in relation to limited resources.
Forces Stimulating Change
in US Health Care System
What are
Demographic trends
Social and economic trends
Health workforce trends
Technological trends
What is Analytic epidemiology?
What is Analytic epidemiology examines the how and why of observed patterns of health and disease.
Twelve
What is the number of principles/statements related to the Public Health Codes of Ethics.
Proposed definition of Population Health
What is “Population Health is the health status of a defined population of individuals, including the distribution of health status within the group”
The goal of public health finance is “to support population-focused preventive health services”
What is “to support population-focused preventive health services”
What is leading to increased Medicare enrollment?
What is the Aging Baby Boomer generation
What is Descriptive epidemiology?
What is that Descriptive epidemiology provides a picture of how things are or have been.
Advocacy
What is supporting a course of action on behalf of a person, group, or community.
3%
What is that only 3% of all national expenditures support governmental public health functions
Factors Affecting Resource Allocation in Health Care
What is
The uninsured
Poor Americans
Access to health services
Rationing health care
What does the terminology Two-class system mean?
What is that the Current Health Care System in the United States is a Two-class system: private and public
What are the Levels of preventive interventions?
What is
Primary - Immunizations
Secondary - Screenings
Tertiary - Physical and occupational therapy
Eight
What is that the 12 principles of the Public Health Codes of Ethics incorporate the 8 ethical tenets of:
1. Preventing harm, 2. Doing no harm, 3. Promoting good, 4. Respecting both individual and community rights, 5. Respecting autonomy, diversity, and confidentiality when possible, 6. Ensuring professional competency, 7. Trustworthiness, 8. Promoting advocacy for disenfranchised persons within a community
Impact of Affordable Care Act
What is not yet known
Four major factors that affect health
What are personal behavior (or lifestyle), environmental factors (including physical, social, and economic environments), human biology, and the health care system—medical services are said to have the least effect. Behavior and lifestyle have been shown to have the greatest effect, with the environment and biology accounting for the greatest effect on the development of all illnesses.
ANA
What is the American Nurses Association (ANA) which is involved in the debates about health care reform over time and developed a Healthcare System Reform Agenda.
What is the Epidemiologic triangle?
What is
Epidemiologic triangle: Agent, host, and environment
Changes in one of the elements of the triangle can influence the occurrence of disease by increasing or decreasing a person’s risk for disease.
Public health nurses have a moral mandate to?
What is public health nurses have a moral mandate to establish ethical standards when advocating for health care policy.
Three Key Nursing Modes in the Community
What are
1. Community-based nursing
2. Community-oriented nursing
3. Public health nursing practice
Healthy People 2030 goals are examples of
What are strategies to provide better access for all people.
Universal Access
What is one of the ANA's Principles for Health System Transformation outlining an equitable health care system
•Universal access to a standard package of essential health care services for all citizens and residents
What is Surveillance?
What is Surveillance involves the systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of data related to the occurrence of disease and the health status of a given population.
Nine
What is that the Nursing Codes of Ethics contains nine provisional statements that address the moral standards that delineate nursing’s values, goals, and obligations.